The pen is mightier the sword
Tags: Blog, business, css, design
And that is why I bought another Parker pen, this time for at the office rather then in the car for whenever out at a client’s business. I absolutely loved the model I had in the car (Insignia for those curious) and would highly advise it for anyone looking for a good quality pen. It has a great feel in your hand (I prefer the slim type) and writes just perfectly!
Update: Damnit! The pen writes in blue, oh well thankfully Ill just buy a black refill 
It’s just been one of those weeks
Tags: Blog, business, cars, design, food, photography
Been a bit slow on any updates but to be honest I haven’t been up to too much over the past week other then working. Be doing some late days (till around 7pm) as we’ve been working pretty hard on getting the last of the backlog of these sites we have to complete at work.
Happy easter to everyone
Tags: Blog, design, easter, travel, websites
First of all hope everyone has a happy and safe Easter this year. I won’t be having much of a break but looks like Ive got house warming party to go to tonight but other then that not much. My parents have head off to Sydney for the weekend so looks like will be spending it with Gem’s family!
One very busy week for one busy boy
Tags: Blog, business, camera, design, movies
Damn this week has just been so busy for me. I have been amazingly getting up at 7am every morning to go to work early just to get all of this excess load we have out of the way. The main thing I have been working in the past few days is our new Shopping Cart system that we have designed from the ground up after getting annoyed with other solutions out there. Screenshot included for those curious.
Design geek warning
Tags: apple, Blog, design, geek
I came across the following page a couple of weeks a go (off Digg of course!) and just had to put it up here for everyone to have a look at. Its simply some ‘warning’ signs that you maybe becoming a design geek. Out of the 23 signs there is around 6 that I could admit to or half can see happening, heres the list:
Seems like im a sucky designer
Tags: Blog, business, design, template
Tonight I was going through the junk mail box in my work email account and came across and email from some yahoo email address that I thought was just a little bit too weird and not spam as it was a little bit direct to me, not selling anything and from a .com.au address. Heres what it said…
Time to catchup
Tags: Blog, business, design, podcast
Well this is my first post since coming back and boy do I have some things to talk about. Firstly, I have actually been really re-considering re-doing my blog, yes I know I only just recently did it and haven’t completely finished yet but I really feel like just something again a bit more simple and stop trying to show off and make it a fixed width design again. By the way I swear Angus James didn’t make me think about it! 
Some new designage
Tags: broadbeach, design, fireworks, gold coast, new years, red bull, work
As Im certain most of you realise, the new design is finally online! There are quite a few things still to be completed (random top image, comments, sidebar and a few more) but the basic new design is finally up and running. If you find any errors in it please let me know and please feel free to leave a comment on what you think of the new design.
Certainly has been a while since my last post and there is quite a bit to update on but it’s a little bit late at the moment so just a quick summary for now.
Music to Keep me Working Hard
Tags: design, health, music, websites
I don’t always like to sit in silence whilst doing work but then I also the dilema of getting into the music to much instead of working. I think I have found a good balance of what music to listen to which mostly contains what is called ‘Chillout’. Nice mellow tunes that stop you from getting into it just a lil too much
I have got a heap of the Ministry of Sound Chillout albums which contain a good variety of these mixes. Infact I have been downloading them from a great ‘legal’ website call AllofMp3. Theres been a lot of discussion in world news about this website however to its ‘legality’ but its still up and running so I advise you to go check it out, when compared to other popular sites for music it defiantly tops the list!
One site that gave me a little chuckle this week was on what happens when you let a developer create user interface, not exactly an appealing interface and shows how many developers are just happy that a program just does what it needs to and leave it at. So many other websites out there have the same problem and with some nice design changes they could easily increase their appeal without a doubt!
Wednesday morning I decided I will start to mod up my bike a little bit and first of all went and bought me some Gloves for the bike, just the style to cover your hands as i have been starting to get some blisters. My main aim at the moment is to keep on doing 10km bike rides 3 times a week to help keep me fit and live just a little bit longer. I also just have now ordered a CatEye Wireless Cycle Computer (not wi-fi wireless hehe) to help me keep track of the distances I’m riding and average speeds etc. and even has a total odometer!
Heaps of Planes Background
Tags: design
I came across this neatly done photo composed of many other photos from the same position at a busy airport on Digg today and I liked it so much that I decided to touch it up a bit and to make a background from it. Direct links to backgrounds in both normal and widescreen aspect ratios below:
 Download 1280×800 |
 Download 1280×1024 |
